Heaven

Here the clinical, stopwatch precision of Mr. Tykwer's explorations of synchronicity and Kieslowski's warmer, metaphysically dreamy speculations about the role of chance and coincidence in human affairs synchronize into a film whose formal elegance is matched by its depth of feeling.Read Full Review »

Unusual, unexpected and strangely refreshing. For this movie to have resorted to a familiar action-flick finish with everything explained, pressed and dry-cleaned would have rendered it banal.Read Full Review »

Odd, and awkward in places, but its lyricism and power stay with you.Read Full Review »

Tykwer's actors seem completely clued in to his intentions. Both Blanchett and Ribisi give performances so restrained they're almost subliminal.Read Full Review »

It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it.Read Full Review »

Poetic in its sadness, and Blanchett's performance confirms her power once again.Read Full Review »

An art film without the NYFF imprimatur, Heaven is a peculiar amalgam -- a Miramax package (without the hype), directed by German hotshot Tom Tykwer under the eye of Anthony Minghella, from a script with which the late Krzysztof Kieslowski had planned to inaugurate a new trilogy named for the Divine Comedy.Read Full Review »

Heaven's tone is all wrong. The movie tries to be ethereal, but ends up seeming goofy.Read Full Review »

Heaven is saved only by the power of an occasional hypnotic image.Read Full Review »

Further sad evidence that Tom Tykwer, director of the resonant and sense-spinning ''Run Lola Run,'' has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap. It's enough to make you want to see him run again.Read Full Review »